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A26855 Additional notes on the life and death of Sir Matthew Hale, the late universally honoured and loved Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench written by Richard Baxter at the request of Edward Stephens, Esq. ... Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. 1682 (1682) Wing B1180; ESTC R1267 16,221 62

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heart an Infidel and inclined to the Opinions of Hobbs I desired him to tell me the truth herein And he oft professed to me that Mr. Selden was a resolved serious Christian and that he was a great adversary to Hobbs his errors and that he had seen him openly oppose him so earnestly as either to depart from him or drive him out of the Room And as Mr. Selden was one of those called Erastians as his Book de Synedriis and others shew yet owned the Office properly Ministerial So most Lawyers that ever I was acquainted with taking the word Jurisdiction to signifie something more than the meer Doctoral Priestly power and power over their own Sacramental Communion in the Church which they guide do use to say that it is primarily in the Magistrate as no doubt all power of Corporal Coercion by Mulcts and Penalties is And as to the Accidentals to the proper power of Priesthood or the Keys they truly say with Dr. Stillingfleet That God hath setled no one form Indeed the Lord Chief Justice thought that the power of the Word and Sacraments in the Ministerial Office was of Gods institution and that they were the proper Judges appointed by Christ to whom they themselves should apply Sacraments and to whom they should deny them But that the power of Chancellors Courts and many modall additions which are not of the Essence of the Priestly Office floweth from the King and may be fitted to the State of the Kingdom Which is true if it be limited by Gods Laws and exercised on thing only allowed them to deal in and contradict not the Orders and Powers setled by Christ and his Apostles On this account he thought well of the form of Government in the Church of England lamenting the miscarriages of many persons and the want of Parochial Reformation But he was greatly for uniting in Love and Peace upon so much as is necessary to Salvation with all Good Sober Peaceable Men. And he was much against the corrupting of the Christian Religion whose Simplicity and Purity he justly took to be much of its excellency by mens busie additions by Wit Policy Ambition or any thing else which sophisticateth it and maketh it another thing and causeth the lamentable contentions of the world What he was as a Lawyer a Judg a Christian is so well known that I think for me to pretend that my testimony is of any use were vain I will only tell you what I have written by his Picture in the front of the great Bible which I bought with his Legacy in memory of his Love and Name viz. Sir Matthew Hale That unwearied Student that prudent Man that solid Philosopher that famous Lawyer that PILLAR and BASIS of JUSTICE who would not have done an unjust act for any worldly price or motive the Ornament of his Majesties Government and Honour of England the highest faculty of the Soul of Westminster Hall and pattern to all the Reverend and Honourable Judges That godly serious practical Christian the lover of goodness and all good men a lamenter of the Clergies selfishness and unfaithfulness and discord and of the sad divisions following hereupon An earnest desirer of their Reformation Concord and the Churches peace and of a REFORMED ACT of UNIFORMITY as the best and necessary means thereto That great contemner of the Riches Pomp and Vanity of the World That pattern of honest plainness and humility who while he fled from the Honour that pursued him was yet Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench after his being long Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer living and dying entring on using and voluntarily surrendring his place of Judicature with the most universal Love and Honour and Praise that ever did English Subject in this Age or any that just History doth acquaint us with c. c. c. This man so wise so good so great bequeathing me in his Testament the Legacy of Forty shillings meerly as a Testimony of his respect and love I thought this book the Testament of Christ the meetest purchase by that price to remain in memorial of the faithful love which he bare and long expressed to his inferiour and unworthy but honouring Friend who thought to have been with Christ before him and waiteth for the day of his perfect conjunction with the Spirits of the Just made perfect Richard Baxter